That’s one of the few advantages of looking for a job (as opposed to having one). I can just say F-ck it! when it’s nasty outside (like Wednesday when it was snowing sideways all day) and refuse to go outside until Mother Nature behaves herself.
Ah, reminds me of that little cold snap when I was attending Mich State. Woke up late for class, raced through a shower, couldn’t find my hat, ended up heading out from the dorm bare-headed with wet hair into, I found, air that was roughly -25 F with the chill factor. :smack:
Turned out to be surprisingly comfortable. The water in my hair froze solid almost instantly, and ice is a surprisingly good insulator. I had really long hair in college, and it turned into a pretty decent hat.
The walk back with dry hair was hell, though.
Being able to say f-ck it 24/7/365 is one of the many advantages of being retired.
I’d list the other advantages but posts are limited to 20,000 words or so.
When we lived in Green River, Wyoming I saw -52 on the bank thermometer on New Years.
Cool. 
It was -20 there my last winter in Champaign, Jan. 1977. Didn’t get above freezing the entire month.
Here in the Bay Area they’re sounding the alert and spreading the news on the front page of the papers that the temperature is going to dive to the intolerable, just awful, low of
20 degrees. :eek:
Californians are such wimps.
Crap. That should be 29 degrees. John Madden said he was wrapping his pipes.
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Mmm, buttery cold.
Poysyn, my love, that’s what you get for living in Winterpeg!
Now, Arctic winters are beautiful. They really, really are, but I will never, ever spend another winter up there. -40 BEFORE windchill? No fucking thank you.
Won’t be long now, eh? I think it’s frozen here once this year.
I wish we could get something like that here in Connecticut - it’s the middle of January, and 50 degrees outside.
I’m sick of this lukewarm, half-assed weather - it should be zero right about now, damnit! I like it cold!
Going to school in Upstate NY we had pitifully few snow days when we thought there should be one - but we did have one cold day that didn’t seem that cold - 25 below, too cold to go to school in Fredonia. So naturally I played outside all day
:: sobs ::
This is so effin’ WRONG!!!
Yeah, I noticed it after I posted. Oh well. It might be one (albeit disgusting) way to get warm, I guess.
They’re having between 1500 and 2000 feet of snow in SoCal? Holy crap! Are there enough shovels in the world to dig out from that?
Have you gotten that bathrobe made out of an electric blanket yet?
Nope. Still just the trusty ol’ down one from Eddie Bauer.
If it’s any consolation at all, in the last 8 hours it’s warmed up considerably here in Regina. Currently it’s warmed up to -20 celsius without factoring in the windchill and -33 with it. First thing this morning it was - 33 without the windchill and - 43 with it. There was a lot of ice fog this morning.
Still I think we’ve been lucky here. Along with these temps, the north half of the province had the worst blizzard in at least 50 years on Wednesday. People were stranded all over the place with cities essentially shutting down. In Saskatoon there were people stranded in the Walmart and Costco store,and in the middle of the night the police were doing rescues via snowmobile. In rural areas, three people who had left their vehicles died due to exposure.
Oh and for the Americans who don’t spend their time thinking in the metric system, the minus 48 celsius windchill would translate into the mid minus 50s in fahrenheit.
Heh, here in PA we got it worse than you but less than Saskatoon. But it’s still a travesty when - get this - Canadian Tire closes for bad weather. Of course, I avoided all of this by spraining my ankle and staying home, which was a good thing, since SIAST closed in the afternoon and I would have had trouble getting home.
In Saskatoon I had a friend who almost got stuck at the university. She caught one of the last buses, and she said it was an hour and half ride for a normally 10 minute route.
We have some in Switzerland.
Work took me to Yorkton, Sask yesterday.
As I’m driving along, the overly cheerful CBC morning crew were chattering on about “Yorkton and Estevan are tied for the coldest places in Saskatchewan today - 47 below with wind chill.”
Thanks.
But when it gets that low, it’s beautiful. The sun came up brilliant orange, the sky to the north was a lovely purple near the horizon, the smoke from the chimneys in the farm houses as I drove along hung in the air. Had to be careful with the ice fog in low-lying areas, but other than that, easy driving.
Then I got to Yorkton and had to run to get inside where it’s warm - when it’s that cold, you do really appreciate that staying outside is dangerous.
And while I’m sorry for the three people who lost their lives in the storm, I have to wonder - you’ve grown up in Saskatchewan and you still don’t get that if your car goes off the road, you stay in the car? You don’t try walking in the country in the winter, especially when the wind is up and the snow is blowing. By the newspaper accounts, in both cases they got disoriented and walked the wrong way.
Oh, and a follow-up from the Weather Network guy this morning - Thompson, Manitoba, hit 42 below yesterday - the actual ambient temp, before taking windchill into account. :eek: He did a global search, and couldn’t find any other inhabited place in the world that was that low, not even in Siberia.